The following courses, offered by departments of language and literature, are taught in English and are open to all students without prerequisite, the literary readings being done in English translation.
| CLST 1 | Introductory Topics in Classical Studies | |
| CLST 2/THEA 12 | The Tragedy and Comedy of Greece and Rome | |
| CLST 3 | Reason and the Good Life: Socrates to Epictetus | |
| CLST 4 | Classical Mythology | |
| CLST 5 | The Heroic Vision: Epics of Greece and Rome | |
| GERM 43.01 | History & Theory of German Film: Contemporary German Film (in English) | |
| GERM 45 | The Burden of the Nazi Past: World War, Genocide, Population Transfer, and Firebombing (in English) | |
| GERM 46 | The German Novel (in English translation) | |
| LACS 4/AAAS 16 | History, Culture and Society: The Many Faces of Latin America | |
| RUSS 31 | The World as Word: 19th Century Russian Fiction | |
| RUSS 32 | Reading Red: 20th Century Russian Fiction | |
| RUSS 35 | Dostoevsky and the Problem of Evil | |
| RUSS 36 | The Seer of the Flesh": Tolstoy's Art and Thought | |
| RUSS 38 | Special Topics in Russian Literature, Culture and Area Studies | |
| COLT 1 | Read the World | |
| COLT 40.01/ENGL 54.15 | History of the Book | |
| COLT 51.01/AAAS 51/ENGL 53.16 | African Literatures: Masterpieces of Literature from Africa | |
| COLT 52.02 | New Latin American Cinema | |
| COLT 85 | Senior Seminar in Research and Methodology | |
For a complete description of each course, look under the appropriate department heading (see also Comparative Literature, Humanities, Religion and Theater listings).